Coconspirator best known for being detained without pants helped him do it. Step on out. Here come this way. Can i put pence on . First sir, youve got to clear the house. And why the people who prosecuted the impeachment of donald trump agree with the attorneys defending donald trump that the federal trial of donald trump should be televised. Lets have cameras in the courtroom so that all americans can see what is happening in our criminal Justice System. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. Well, for donald trump, the stakes at the next president ial election are clear. We all know them. He is running for his freedom. They put and even finer point on it, hes running for his life. The ex president now faces 78 criminal accounts across three jurisdictions and a combined 641 years in prison. At age 77, if hes convicted of any offenses, just one, he could spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. The stakes for the country are equally dire. Don
also live in a world where former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things. so, for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you are also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process that. i talked about this a minute ago, and when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they are saying it s gratuitous, they are saying this is inappropriate, this is inconsistent with doj policy and practice, it s them saying. we agree, you know, you heard the president speak about this last night, and the vice president speak forcefully about this today, we a
former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things? so for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you re also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process this? i talked about this a minute ago, and i think, you know, when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they re saying it s gratuitous, this isn t appropriate. this is inconsistent with the doj policy and practice. that s them saying it. we agree. you heard the president speak forcefully about this last night. you heard the vice president speak forcefully about this today. we agree that
of their own to see if biden took anything after he left the vice presidency in 2017. joining us is mike memoli. good to have you. a mix of good news and bad news for the president. yeah, katy, for those who remember what happened in 2016, involving former secretary of state hillary clinton, the democratic nominee at the time for president, of course we remember there were no charges but a pretty damming report from the attorney general at the time, james comey. the initial top lines were reading of this report find a similar situation. that there are no charges recommending here against the president, but some damming details, including statement that he willfully retained documents after leaving office. the point you highlighted about how the special counsel and his team found their interviews with the president in which he, as it was put, his memory was significantly limited, are certainly going to be weaponized by the president s opponents. we also see an interesting mo
a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news smith is overseeing the dual probes involving pence s former boss regarding the classified documents trump took with him to mar-a-lago and the january 6th attack on the capitol. we do not know exactly why he has subpoenaed pence and if it is in reference to one or both of these probes but when a former vice president of the united states is subpoenaed, it is a big deal. according to abc news which was the first to report this news, it follows months of negotiations between federal prosecutors and pence s legal team. not surprising, but spokespeople for both the former vice president and the special counsel have declined to comment. joining me now is my colleague and anchor of the beat, ari melber. peter strzok, former fbi counterintelligence agent, and charles coleman, former prosecutor. ari, i m going to start with you. it is a big deal, but not a specifically big deal because we don t know exactly what these probes are abou